King and Duke, Royal Nonesuch An Interpretation of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” Chapters 19-23 By: Jon DeLiberty Josh Leach Leno Mallory Starring: (in order of Appearance) Huck Jim The Duke The King Boggs “Drunkard”
Scene/ Chapter 19
EXT. HUCK AND JIM’S RAFT- DAY INTO NIGHT
Huck and Jim float down river by nightfall and hide by daylight. Huck finds a canoe and goes up a little creek in search of berries.
EXT. A PATH ALONG A CREEK- DAYTIME
While searching he comes across two fellas making haste down a path saying they care being chased by men and dogs.
Duke:Can we jump in your canoe? Huck:
Don’t you do it. Go down the path a lil ways and hop into the brush then take to the water and meet me down that way. Thatll throw the dogs off the scent.
The men follow his directions and get into the canoe down river.
EXT. BACK ON THE RAFT- DAYTIME
King:What got you in trouble? Duke:Sellin’ an article to take tartar off your teeth, well it takes the enamel too. What about you?
King:
Id ben runnin a little temperance revival bout a week now. Business was good till someone caught me catchin a jug on the sly. Well they were for tarrin and featherin me so I got out.
Duke:
Well old man id reckon wed double team it together? What ya say?
King:Well alright. Whats your line of work?
Duke:Printer by trade. I take to acting, theatre, drama ya know whatever I can get at the time. What’s your lay?
King:Ive done a considerable amount of doctorin, preachin too, round camp meetins and missionaries.
Duke:To think I should have lived to be leading such a life, and be degraded down into such company
King:Dern your skin, ain't the company good enough for you?
Duke:Gentleman, I will reveal it to you, for I feel I may have confidence in you. By rights I am a duke!
Huck and Jim bug out when they are revealed this information
King:No! you can't mean it?
Duke:I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here am I, forlorn, torn from my high estate
Huck and Jim both pity the man
Throughout the night and into dinner Huck and Jim honor the “Duke of Bridgewater”, but the older man stayed silent. It looked like he had something on his mind until that late afternoon when he spoke.
King:Looky here Bildgewater, You ain't the only person that's ben snaked down wrongfully out'n a high place
Duke:Hold! What do you mean
King:Can I trust you?
Duke:To the bitter Death!
The duke took the old man by the and squeezed
Duke:That secret of your being: speak!
King:Bilgewater, I am the late Dauphin!
All were astonished by the news. Huck and Jim began to comfort the King like they had done the Duke. Huck soon realizes these people are no good frauds.
Chapter 20
EXT. On the raft-night
The four men are on the raft talking
Duke:Is Jim a runaway?Huck:Would a runaway run south?
"My folks was living in Pike County, in Missouri, where I was born, and they all died off but me and pa and my brother Ike. Pa, he 'lowed he'd break up and go down and live with Uncle Ben, who's got a little one-horse place on the river, forty-four mile below Orleans. Pa was pretty poor, and had some debts; so when he'd squared up there warn't nothing left but sixteen dollars and Jim. That warn't enough to take us fourteen hundred mile, deck passage nor no other way. Well, when the river rose pa had a streak of luck one day; he ketched this piece of a raft; so we reckoned we'd go down to Orleans on it. Pa's luck didn't hold out; a steamboat run over the forrard corner of the raft one night, and we all went overboard and dove under the wheel; Jim and me come up all right, but pa was drunk, and Ike was only four years old, so they never come up no more. Well, for the next day or two we had considerable trouble, because people was always coming out in skiffs and trying to take Jim away from me, saying they believed he was a runaway. We don't run day-times no more now; nights they don't bother us."
Then the duke and king go to sleep and jim and huck take watch on the raft.
EXT. on the raft –morning
Duke:
"The first good town we come to we'll hire a hall and do the sword fight in Richard III. and the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. How does that strike you?"
they then go on to practice to practice for the play\
EXT. in the wood-day
A preacher is preaching to a bunch of sinners.
King“I was a pirate”“ive been a pirate for 30 years”(ramble about sin)(burst into tears)
towns people take up a collection for the king and then they all leave town in the cover of night Chapter 21 EXT. On the River – Daytime All 4 are on the raft, they can now travel in the daylight. They are practicing the play.
KING: “No, you musn’t bellow out (manly) ROMEO!! Try again!
DUKE: (girly) ROMEOOOO!
KING: “Good, now to the fight scene. Here take this.” (Hands sword)
*begin fighting, fall overboard*
KING: “Hmmm…. That reminds me, we need to practice Hamlet’s soliloquy.
DUKE: “Hamlet’s who?”
KING: *sigh* so uneducated. It goes like this: (in deep thought) To not be, or to be…wait no, To be, or be not… no … ah no matter lets move on. (continuing to practice off to the side)
EXT. River Bank – Day Tying up the raft (begin hanging up posters on the white board) (leave and go to town)
Crowd: “Gimmie a chaw’v tobacker” “Cain’t, but one left fer myself” “Aww c’mon, I’ll pay you back, I’m good fer it.” “Mhm, fer shure…”
“Here comes old Boggs.”
Boggs (on a horse): (obviously drunk) “Move, move atta da way ye hear me.” To Huck: “Where’d you come from boy? You ‘pared to die?
Huck: “Yikes”
Boggs: “come out here Sherburn” “You swindler.” (more ranting)
“Fine, I’m tired of this, you got until 1 O’clock, then ill find you.
Crowd: “Go for his daughter, he’ll listen to her.”
Sherburn (pistol in hand) “Boggs!”
Boggs (hands up, pleading) “Oh lord don’t shoot me!”
Duke and King keep looking in at the crowd, then the duke says...
Duke: This is the most thrillingest tragedy you're ever going to see.
The king comes in (on all fours?) and prances around on the stage.
Crowd Member: "What, is it over? Is that all?"
Duke: Yeah!...
The "crowd" gets angry Big fine-looking gentleman: Wait. Tell everyone that this tragedy was mighty good so that they get ripped off too.
EXT. ON STAGE OF THE ROYAL NONESUCH- THE NEXT NIGHT
A sign indicates "the next night..." King dances around just like before.
Crowd Member: "What, is it over? Is that all?"
Another sign indicates "the next night..."
Duke: These people are probably pretty upset. We should get out of here.
Jim and the king are waiting on the raft.
EXT. THE RAFT ON THE RIVER- NIGHT King: How'd it go?
Duke:We got them so good! We made $465 in three nights!
King and Duke: Ha! ... Ha Ha! Ha Ha Haaaaaaaaa!!
The king and duke fall asleep.
Jim: Don't dem men bodder you none?
Huck: Naw, all kings are like that.
Jim: "Is dat so?"
Huck: Yeah it's so! Look at old Henry the Eight! He would marry a woman, then chop her head off. Then marry a woman, then chop her head off. Then marry a woman, and chop her head off. Henry never gave nobody a chance with nothin'! He did things without worryin' 'bout nobody! This king here (gestures to king) is the same way. It's the way a king's raised.
Jim: "Now de duke, he's a tolerble likely man, in some ways."
Huck: "Yes a duke's different." But not by much. Get him drunk, and you can't tell the difference between him and a king.
Huck and Jim go to sleep
Jim: (moaning in his sleep) "Po' little 'Lizabeth! Po' little Johnny! It's mighty hard; I spec' I ain't ever gwyne to see you no mo'!"
Huck wakes up
Huck: (concerned) Want to talk, pal?
Jim: I hit 'Lizabeth one time! Fo' a stupid thing too. She didn' shet de do' when I asked, she jes smiled like a dummy, so I "fetch' her a slap side de head dat sont her a-sprawlin'." I felt might bad laytuh, and I goes to her and holds her tight cryin', I asks the Lawd God fo' fo'giveness! But not before I went and yelled POW!!! in her ear! She's deef Huck! Couldn't hear a thang! Oh Lord fo'give me!!!!!!!!! (Jim cries)
An Interpretation of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Chapters 19-23
By:
Jon DeLiberty
Josh Leach
Leno
Mallory
Starring: (in order of Appearance)
Huck
Jim
The Duke
The King
Boggs “Drunkard”
Scene/ Chapter 19
EXT. HUCK AND JIM’S RAFT- DAY INTO NIGHT
Huck and Jim float down river by nightfall and hide by daylight. Huck finds a canoe and goes up a little creek in search of berries.
EXT. A PATH ALONG A CREEK- DAYTIME
While searching he comes across two fellas making haste down a path saying they care being chased by men and dogs.
Duke:Can we jump in your canoe?
Huck:
Don’t you do it. Go down the path a lil ways and hop into the brush then take to the water and meet me down that way. Thatll throw the dogs off the scent.
The men follow his directions and get into the canoe down river.
EXT. BACK ON THE RAFT- DAYTIME
King:What got you in trouble?
Duke:Sellin’ an article to take tartar off your teeth, well it takes the enamel too. What about you?
King:
Id ben runnin a little temperance revival bout a week now. Business was good till someone caught me catchin a jug on the sly. Well they were for tarrin and featherin me so I got out.
Duke:
Well old man id reckon wed double team it together? What ya say?
King:Well alright. Whats your line of work?
Duke:Printer by trade. I take to acting, theatre, drama ya know whatever I can get at the time. What’s your lay?
King:Ive done a considerable amount of doctorin, preachin too, round camp meetins and missionaries.
Duke:To think I should have lived to be leading such a life, and be degraded down into such company
King:Dern your skin, ain't the company good enough for you?
Duke:Gentleman, I will reveal it to you, for I feel I may have confidence in you. By rights I am a duke!
Huck and Jim bug out when they are revealed this information
King:No! you can't mean it?
Duke:I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here am I, forlorn, torn from my high estate
Huck and Jim both pity the man
Throughout the night and into dinner Huck and Jim honor the “Duke of Bridgewater”, but the older man stayed silent. It looked like he had something on his mind until that late afternoon when he spoke.
King:Looky here Bildgewater, You ain't the only person that's ben snaked down wrongfully out'n a high place
Duke:Hold! What do you mean
King:Can I trust you?
Duke:To the bitter Death!
The duke took the old man by the and squeezed
Duke:That secret of your being: speak!
King:Bilgewater, I am the late Dauphin!
All were astonished by the news. Huck and Jim began to comfort the King like they had done the Duke. Huck soon realizes these people are no good frauds.
Chapter 20
EXT. On the raft-night
The four men are on the raft talking
Duke:Is Jim a runaway?Huck:Would a runaway run south?"My folks was living in Pike County, in Missouri, where I was born, and they all died off but me and pa and my brother Ike. Pa, he 'lowed he'd break up and go down and live with Uncle Ben, who's got a little one-horse place on the river, forty-four mile below Orleans. Pa was pretty poor, and had some debts; so when he'd squared up there warn't nothing left but sixteen dollars and Jim. That warn't enough to take us fourteen hundred mile, deck passage nor no other way. Well, when the river rose pa had a streak of luck one day; he ketched this piece of a raft; so we reckoned we'd go down to Orleans on it. Pa's luck didn't hold out; a steamboat run over the forrard corner of the raft one night, and we all went overboard and dove under the wheel; Jim and me come up all right, but pa was drunk, and Ike was only four years old, so they never come up no more. Well, for the next day or two we had considerable trouble, because people was always coming out in skiffs and trying to take Jim away from me, saying they believed he was a runaway. We don't run day-times no more now; nights they don't bother us."
Then the duke and king go to sleep and jim and huck take watch on the raft.
EXT. on the raft –morning
Duke:
"The first good town we come to we'll hire a hall and do the sword fight in Richard III. and the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. How does that strike you?"
they then go on to practice to practice for the play\
EXT. in the wood-day
A preacher is preaching to a bunch of sinners.
King“I was a pirate”“ive been a pirate for 30 years”(ramble about sin)(burst into tears)
towns people take up a collection for the king and then they all leave town in the cover of nightChapter 21
EXT. On the River – Daytime
All 4 are on the raft, they can now travel in the daylight. They are practicing the play.
KING:
“No, you musn’t bellow out (manly) ROMEO!! Try again!
DUKE:
(girly) ROMEOOOO!
KING:
“Good, now to the fight scene. Here take this.”
(Hands sword)
*begin fighting, fall overboard*
KING:
“Hmmm…. That reminds me, we need to practice Hamlet’s soliloquy.
DUKE:
“Hamlet’s who?”
KING:
*sigh* so uneducated. It goes like this:
(in deep thought)
To not be, or to be…wait no,
To be, or be not… no … ah no matter lets move on.
(continuing to practice off to the side)
EXT. River Bank – Day
Tying up the raft
(begin hanging up posters on the white board)
(leave and go to town)
Crowd:
“Gimmie a chaw’v tobacker”
“Cain’t, but one left fer myself”
“Aww c’mon, I’ll pay you back, I’m good fer it.”
“Mhm, fer shure…”
“Here comes old Boggs.”
Boggs (on a horse):
(obviously drunk) “Move, move atta da way ye hear me.”
To Huck:
“Where’d you come from boy? You ‘pared to die?
Huck:
“Yikes”
Boggs:
“come out here Sherburn”
“You swindler.”
(more ranting)
“Fine, I’m tired of this, you got until 1 O’clock, then ill find you.
Crowd:
“Go for his daughter, he’ll listen to her.”
Sherburn (pistol in hand)
“Boggs!”
Boggs (hands up, pleading)
“Oh lord don’t shoot me!”
Bang!
*pause*
Bang!
(girl screams)
Sherburn leaves
Boggs still gasping
*dies*
Crownd (angry):
Sherburn should be lynched!
CHAPTER 23
EXT. ON STAGE OF THE ROYAL NONESUCH- NIGHT
Duke and King keep looking in at the crowd, then the duke says...
Duke:
This is the most thrillingest tragedy you're ever going to see.
The king comes in (on all fours?) and prances around on the stage.
Crowd Member:
"What, is it over? Is that all?"
Duke:
Yeah!...
The "crowd" gets angry
Big fine-looking gentleman:
Wait. Tell everyone that this tragedy was mighty good so that they get ripped off too.
EXT. ON STAGE OF THE ROYAL NONESUCH- THE NEXT NIGHT
A sign indicates "the next night..." King dances around just like before.
Crowd Member:
"What, is it over? Is that all?"
Another sign indicates "the next night..."
Duke:
These people are probably pretty upset. We should get out of here.
Jim and the king are waiting on the raft.
EXT. THE RAFT ON THE RIVER- NIGHT
King:
How'd it go?
Duke:We got them so good! We made $465 in three nights!
King and Duke:
Ha! ... Ha Ha! Ha Ha Haaaaaaaaa!!
The king and duke fall asleep.
Jim:
Don't dem men bodder you none?
Huck:
Naw, all kings are like that.
Jim:
"Is dat so?"
Huck:
Yeah it's so! Look at old Henry the Eight! He would marry a woman, then chop her head off. Then marry a woman, then chop her head off. Then marry a woman, and chop her head off. Henry never gave nobody a chance with nothin'! He did things without worryin' 'bout nobody! This king here (gestures to king) is the same way. It's the way a king's raised.
Jim:
"Now de duke, he's a tolerble likely man, in some ways."
Huck:
"Yes a duke's different." But not by much. Get him drunk, and you can't tell the difference between him and a king.
Huck and Jim go to sleep
Jim:
(moaning in his sleep) "Po' little 'Lizabeth! Po' little Johnny! It's mighty hard; I spec' I ain't ever gwyne to see you no mo'!"
Huck wakes up
Huck:
(concerned) Want to talk, pal?
Jim:
I hit 'Lizabeth one time! Fo' a stupid thing too. She didn' shet de do' when I asked, she jes smiled like a dummy, so I "fetch' her a slap side de head dat sont her a-sprawlin'." I felt might bad laytuh, and I goes to her and holds her tight cryin', I asks the Lawd God fo' fo'giveness! But not before I went and yelled POW!!! in her ear! She's deef Huck! Couldn't hear a thang! Oh Lord fo'give me!!!!!!!!! (Jim cries)
END SCENE.